'Twenty Twelve' premieres on BBC America on June 28 with three back-to-back half-hours.

“Twenty Twelve,” a BBC mockumentary series about the (inept) planners of the 2012 London Olympic Games, is the funniest comedy I’ve seen in weeks — and these have been weeks of screening the network TV fall pilots.

Hugh Bonneville (“Downton Abbey”) leads the cast in a sendup of bureaucratic group-think, public relations double-talk, and corporate snafus. It feels like the urbane version of the original “The Office.”

“Twenty Twelve” premieres on BBC America on June 28 with three back-to-back half-hours.

Makes me wonder why Brits are so good at self parody? Is it something to do with their tendency toward stiff propriety? The ability to speak endlessly while saying nothing, but with perfect diction? Pardon me for saying I LOL’d.

Joanne Ostrow has been watching TV since before "reality" required quotation marks. "Hill Street Blues" was life-changing. If Dickens, Twain or Agatha Christie were alive today, they'd be writing for television. And proud of it.